It’s good that gender being a social construct is slowly becoming accepted. It’s also good that people are starting to realize that sex is complicated and there are no simple rules to determine someone’s sex.
The one drawback to all this I can see is that it might be slightly undermining progress made in avoiding stereotyping interests and activities as being male activities/interests or female activities/interests. IMO, the progressive view in the 1970s was that boys could play with dolls, girls could play with cars. Boys could wear dresses, girls could play sports. Boys could put on makeup (and then perform on stage in bands made up of other boys with big hair and makeup), girls could like superhero comic books. It seems to me like with the modern acceptance that some people are transgender, we’re now slipping back into thinking that hobbies and interests are gender-coded.
It’s good that gender being a social construct is slowly becoming accepted. It’s also good that people are starting to realize that sex is complicated and there are no simple rules to determine someone’s sex.
I think the second half of your comment is true, but it is part of the push back against genders as social constructs. I wouldn’t agree that it’s becoming accepted. Most people either disagree or pay some lip service to the idea and then buy an all pink dress for their little girl because “it’s what she likes”
It’s good that gender being a social construct is slowly becoming accepted. It’s also good that people are starting to realize that sex is complicated and there are no simple rules to determine someone’s sex.
The one drawback to all this I can see is that it might be slightly undermining progress made in avoiding stereotyping interests and activities as being male activities/interests or female activities/interests. IMO, the progressive view in the 1970s was that boys could play with dolls, girls could play with cars. Boys could wear dresses, girls could play sports. Boys could put on makeup (and then perform on stage in bands made up of other boys with big hair and makeup), girls could like superhero comic books. It seems to me like with the modern acceptance that some people are transgender, we’re now slipping back into thinking that hobbies and interests are gender-coded.
I think the second half of your comment is true, but it is part of the push back against genders as social constructs. I wouldn’t agree that it’s becoming accepted. Most people either disagree or pay some lip service to the idea and then buy an all pink dress for their little girl because “it’s what she likes”